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About the little brown mouse.
December 12th, 2007 by Tiff

I’m just a simple 30 something year old woman with a not so simple life.

Nothing to look at; overweight, short, hormonal girl, living in a tiny country town in rural NSW.

Plain. Mousey.

I love to write though and it makes me feel beautiful.

I hate the telephone, love scrapbooking, love, love LOVE photography and I love my family.

Oh yeah and blogging.

My favourite food is ice cream.

Here’s the thing;

I have seven children.

Yes.

You heard me right.

Seven.

Before you tell me I’m crazy or a breeder or say something weird like; ‘You must have your hands full’ or Don’t you know what a television is?’, just keep reading.

Ok?

I didn’t plan it that way. I wanted four children, so still a big family, in this day and age but I can honestly say I never thought I would have that many kids.

The thing is, I cheated.

I had a set of twins first up, then a singleton two years later.

When she was two we took on fostering our two nephews. It was supposed to be temporary. Now we have permanent custody of them until they turn 18.

I’ve lost a baby when he was five days old in 2004.

That led us to try again and in 2005 we welcomed our second set of twins.

So, there you go.

Cheated.

I am married to my long suffering husband, who I love very much.

I was a midwife in another life but at the moment, I am practicing at being a SAHM.

I say practicing because this is the first time I haven’t worked in…well,  a long time.

This home is busy, challenging, noisy, chaotic and I love it… most of the time.

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16 Responses  
Trish (241 comments.) writes:
December 18th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

you sell you yourself short, my friend - you are beautiful inside and out.

Joh (13 comments.) writes:
January 6th, 2008 at 11:56 am

I love this new home. Gorgeous, colourful headers, it’s bright and beautiful, just like it’s author. I agree with Trish!

Karen MEG (27 comments.) writes:
January 14th, 2008 at 11:10 am

I am in awe. You must be a special woman indeed. I surfed in through your WW comment on my blog. I already love what I see!

frogpondsrock (99 comments.) writes:
February 8th, 2008 at 12:02 pm

You know Tiff, I have seen your photo and I would never in a million years describe you as mousy or plain.. gosh woman You ARE Beautiful..

cheers kim…

Frogdancer (3 comments.) writes:
February 16th, 2008 at 6:49 am

Seven kids is huge.
I stopped at four. Boys. In five years. No twins. (Does that mean I didn’t cheat???)
My reason was different. I was after a girl.
Now our house rule is that we have female pets.
It works pretty well too.

Chris H (4 comments.) writes:
March 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am

I win! I had 6 kids in 10 years .. 3 girls first, 3 boys next (clever eh?) then we took on two grandchildren when our youngest was 10… a girl and a year later a boy… so I have 8! I quite like the number 8. I don’t want 9… it’s an odd number and I like them EVEN!

Mary writes:
March 18th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Well, I always wondered what the “little brown mouse” was, and finally clicked through today.
Silly me. I thought it was a little icon running around your posts, which somehow I had always missed. On the order of “Where’s Waldo?”…and if I spotted it I would win a prize.
Then I discover that it is a reference to the bloggarific author herself?!
You ARE beautiful! Those of us who have met you in person knew that as soon as we saw you, if not before. I have to think you said “mousey” only to make us laugh.

Dr.Cason (16 comments.) writes:
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm

7 wow. We’re discussing going for the fourth.

I’m so sorry for your loss. I read William’s story.

I look forward to getting to know you and your family….

Mary writes:
October 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

I am still waiting for you to change this!!

Hands and Hearts Full (13 comments.) writes:
November 10th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

Hi, I just found your blog today. I am really enjoying reading it.
Hubby and I only have 5 munchkins so far :)

le (16 comments.) writes:
November 24th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

nice to know you better …. I wish I had more babes - started too late - thrilled to have my two - four is a great number - seven even better :) le

michelle | bleeding espresso (2 comments.) writes:
January 24th, 2009 at 6:17 am

This is so beautifully written; I’m looking forward to getting to know you better through your writing :)

Fiona writes:
February 28th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Hi Tiff, Im trying to find your email address to ask you directly but can’t find it.
Could I ask you to email me. I would like to ask you for some information/websites etc I can pass on to a friend who just this week birthed & lost her little girl. Her story is similar to yours in someway. I thought you would be a good person to ask.

Thanks Tiff

Fiona

Melissa writes:
March 18th, 2009 at 7:44 am

You are working - you just do it from home and the compensation is not in dollars. I’m so glad I stumbled here.
Thank you
Wife goes on

Kat (68 comments.) writes:
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm

I have to agree with some of these other kiss-ups. You are a beautiful woman. And I’m not kissing up, either. :’P

Charndra at Part Time Nappy Free! (2 comments.) writes:
June 18th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

What a lovely post about you!

I’ve just found your blog (via a nappy page).

I live in Canberra - for another month!

Charndra

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